When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand up for The Star-Spangled Banner before Friday’s preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, he knew his action would stir controversy. Based on statements made …
“Wild mood swings” is a phrase that may enter your mind when listening to Portland trio Vibrissae’s debut album, Somewhere Away. Not because it sounds like The Cure’s 1996 masterpiece–though, interestingly, the band cites The …
People love sloths. They’re cute as hell, slow as molasses, and, unfortunately, many are super-endangered. There’s a whole internet subculture dedicated to the adorableness of sloths: Cute baby sloths, sloths getting potty trained, Super Cute Sloths …
“The only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated park, and a desegregated public toilet; you can sit down next to white folks on the toilet. That’s …
Editor’s note: The following article discusses events within some of the first five episodes of HBO’s The Night Of and contains spoilers. It is written under the assumption that the reader has watched the first …
There’s no other way to put this, so let’s cut to the chase: Nobody is doing what Thud is doing. Nobody comes close. There are a lot of bands out there effectively trying to capture …
so, the thing about early brit new wave/shoegaze, different from american shoegaze/new wave, was the brits were rooted in brit r&b too, like spandau ballet and things like that. i mean, the only real difference …
We humans tend to tie music to the milestones of our short lives. Whether it’s a birthday, wedding, or bar mitzvah, it doesn’t take a lot of looking to find a DJ or streaming radio …
more on the dreamscape/dreampop side of shoegaze… breathy synths, not a lot of distortion, nor abrupt changes; instead many layers of evolving bits of sonic details fading in and out carried by large melodic chords …
Residents of Denver take solace: You’re not too high. Denver’s mobile data speeds are the worst. Literally. According to RootMetrics, an analytics firm that says it “scientifically tests[s] mobile network performance around the world,” Denver’s …
Republicans have this curious habit of loudly decrying something for a hot minute before doing a complete 180 and appropriating that exact same idea without attribution or even the slightest hint of self-awareness. Perhaps it’s …
Milan-based producer Manfredi Lamartina, AKA Novanta, spent some time in Iceland last year and walked away moved by his experience. “Iceland seems a little piece of paradise with breathtaking landscapes and a general feeling of …
Novanta feels ‘new’ to me. classic shoegaze elements, poundy drums and driving bass, reverb’d vocals, mixed with modern details like tremolo picking and long delay decays. the album feels a little scattered, almost like a …
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